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If I Gained the World
Author: Anna Ölander Appears in 25 hymnals First Line: If I gained the world, but lost the Savior Text Sources: Translation Composite
If I Gained the World
What Will It Profit Me?
Author: T. O. Chisholm Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: If, to gain the whole world, I should lose my own soul Refrain First Line: What will it profit me Used With Tune: [If, to gain the whole world, I should lose my own soul]
What Will It Profit Me?
TRUE RICHES
Appears in 21 hymnals Tune Sources: Swedish melody Incipit: 55653 51217 55654 Used With Text: If I Gained the World
TRUE RICHES
[If, to gain the whole world, I should lose my own soul]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Merrill Dunlop Used With Text: What Will It Profit Me?
[If, to gain the whole world, I should lose my own soul]
If I Gained the World
Author: Anna Olander, 1861-1939 Hymnal: His Fullness Songs #293 (1977) First Line: If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour Lyrics: 1 If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,
Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
In the things that soon must pass away?
If I gained the world, but had no Saviour,
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?
2 Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,
And a name revered both far and near,
Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting,
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but had no Saviour,
Who endured the cross and died for me,
Could then all the world afford a refuge,
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?
3 O what emptiness!— without the Savior
’Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, tho' I might live without the Saviour,
When I come to die, how would it be?
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!
4 O the joy of having all in Jesus!
What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne’er a sin so great, but He’ll forgive it,
Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,
Nothing else in all the world beside—
O then ev'rything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide. Topics: Testimony Languages: English Tune Title: OM JAG AGDE ALLT
If I Gained the World
If I Gained the World
Author: Anna Ölander Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2777 First Line: If I gained the world, but lost the Savior Lyrics: 1. If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
In the things that soon must pass away?
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?
2. Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,
And a name revered both far and near,
Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting,
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Who endured the cross and died for me,
Could then all the world afford a refuge,
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?
3. O what emptiness!—without the Savior
’Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, though I might live without the Savior,
When I come to die, how would it be?
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!
4. O the joy of having all in Jesus!
What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne’er a sin so great, but He’ll forgive it,
Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,
Nothing else in all the world beside—
O then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide. Languages: English Tune Title: ÖLANDER
If I Gained the World
If I Gained the World
Author: Anna Olander Hymnal: Inspiring Gospel Solos and Duets No. 1 #29 (1943) First Line: If I gained the world, but lost the Savior Languages: English Tune Title: [If I gained the world, but lost the Savior]
If I Gained the World
Anonymous
Composer of "ÖLANDER" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Ellis J. Crum
1928 - 2011 Person Name: E. J. C. Author (stanza 5) of "If I Gained The World" in Special Sacred Selections
Ellis J. Crum
Thomas O. Chisholm
1866 - 1960 Person Name: T. O. Chisholm Author of "What Will It Profit Me?" in Favorites Number 6 Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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Signed letter from Chisholm dated 9 August 1953 located in the DNAH Archives.
Thomas O. Chisholm
